More About John Anderson Pierson: Burial: Unknown, Texas. Census 1: 1910, TX-Anderson Cty-Ed#16-Im 13. Census 2: 1900, TX-Anderson Cty-Ed#10-Im 8/22. Census 3: 1930, TX-Leon County-Dist 12-Pg#26.
More About John Anderson Pierson and Estella Elizabeth Barnett: Marriage: December 26, 1909
Marriage Notes for John Anderson Pierson and Estella Elizabeth Barnett: The Strong Saga
Mother Elizabeth and Father John
Estella Elizabeth Barnett and John Anderson Pierson met and soon formed a beautiful union of matrimony on December 26, 1909. This union has produced a very interesting and fruitful history. From it were born ten children, four girls and six boys: Jeffery, Johnny, Althia, Zummer Lee, Oneta, Edward, Deon, Willie Louis, FCL and Louise.
Together they trained each one of their children to work at an early age and saw that they had specific responsibilities. That was a must in that household. Elizabeth and John were stern and strict parents. They were also very protective of their children.
Estella Elizabeth was a quiet and lovely person who loved quilting, and cooking. She raised Chickens, Ducks, and Genies. She was a good church worker serving on the Usher Board.
John Anderson was a loveable person who was a jack-of-all-trades. He loved nature and the farm land. He would sing and play the guitar around the community. He was a farmer that made syrup for the community, a carpenter, and he was the secretary of his church (Roman Johnson Church).
There are some historical land-marks in the Grapeland,Texas area where a massacre gang had ran the parents out of their home in Slokum. In the mist of this situation, the massacre gang had messed up John Anderson's leg by hitting him with a tree stump. As a result they were in hiding for a while.
This God-fearing training and home atmosphere brought about many favorable and rewarding returns in their offspring in the years that followed. Some were talented and gifted to sing; some were called to expound the gospel, even now; some were industrious home-makers, loyal and faithful bread-winners and some where studious and pursued high academic training which produced teachers and nurses and doctors.
John Anderson Pierson (b. December 19, 1890, d. September 15, 1968)
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